Andy Nulman 
BBC
Guide to militant Islam
The Trouble with Islam
Audio Slide Show: A Cleric’s Journey to the Suburbs
Re: Beyond The Veil, ongoing series.
Aren't one's own clothes a matter of personal choice? Many Muslim women have pointed out that they would be accused of rampant Islamofascism if they asked women with short skirts or naked midriffs to cover up. But you can't have it both ways: I can disagree with what you wear, but -- if I am to remain true to universalist Enlightenment values -- the other half of Voltaire's formulation has to click in too!
However, the question of the veil does put those who have anti-Islam agenda on the spot. For most of the past 100 years, being in favour of free speech meant being in favour of good things and against denial and repression. That should also apply to the right to wear. The furor over the right to wear the veil has exposed the double standards of the anti-Islam agenda. Sorry, but you can't just pick and choose what to tolerate
Magdy Makhlouf, Calgary.
Tuesday November 21, 2006 The Guardian The Dutch have reached a new level of authoritarianism
Across Europe, the campaign against the veil now has an established pattern; and it has nothing to do with integration
Sunday Oct 5, 2003 bbc
US image drops among Muslims
Hostility towards the US has reached "shocking" levels in the Muslim world, according to a report released in Washington.
Wed 1209 Wed 22 Nov 2006 Among several good backgrounders, the Economist offers thought-provoking pieces on at least three topics dear to WN hearts. Try the piece on Canada and multiculturalism(particularly interesting in the light of the recent initiative in The Netherlands to ban the wearing of burqas and other Muslim full-face veils).
np Which is more offensive?
Aren't one's own clothes a matter of personal choice? Many Muslim women have pointed out that they would be accused of rampant Islamofascism if they asked women with short skirts or naked midriffs to cover up. But you can't have it both ways: I can disagree with what you wear, but -- if I am to remain true to universalist Enlightenment values -- the other half of Voltaire's formulation has to click in too!
Saturday 18 November 2006 Dutch Consider Banning Burqas in Public By GREGORY CROUCH [good!] The government has raised the fear that a terrorist might wear such a garment to move beyond security checks.
Monday 13 November 2006 rci VATICAN CITY In an unprecedented meeting, Pope Benedict has welcomed a leading Muslim academic, Mustapha Cherif, at the Vatican. Mr. Cherif, who teaches at Algiers University and who vigorously campaigns against religious hatred, had requested the meeting several months before the Pope made controversial remarks in Regensburg, Germany, earlier this year. The remarks angered Muslims in many countries who thought that the Pope was equating Islam with violence. The two men agreed that a dialogue between religions is possible to reduce misunderstandings. Mr. Cherif proposed holding an international conference bringing together Christians and Muslims. He said that the Pope called Islam a great religion. The Pope travels to Turkey later this month.
Saturday 11 November 2006 The head of Britain's domestic spy agency, MI5, says Muslim extremists are planning at least 30 terrorist attacks in the country. Eliza Manningham-Buller says some of the attacks may involve chemical and nuclear weapons. She says young British Muslims are being groomed to become suicide bombers. British agents are tracking some 1,600 suspects, most of whom were born in Britain and linked to al-Qaeda in Pakistan. Miss Manningham-Buller says the terrorist threat is growing and affects others countries as well, from Spain to France to Canada and Germany. Britain suffered its worst peacetime attack in July 2005, when four British Islamists blew themselves up on London's transport network, killing 52 commuters and wounding hundreds.
Friday 10 November 2006 A London court has convicted a British Muslim on charges of stirring up racial hatred after he called for September 11th-style attacks during a protest outside the city's Danish Embassy. However, the jury was unable to reach a verdict on a separate charge of soliciting murder after he was alleged to have called for the indiscriminate killing of British troops in Iraq. Mizanur Rahman denied both charges.
Saturday 04 November 2006 Four-hundred delegates from the Muslim world and Europe are attending a conference in Barcelona, Spain, on Islamic feminism. The purpose is to support Muslim women who are fighting for recognition of their rights within the Islamic world in opposition to men wishing to maintain their long-established supremacy. Participants are addressing such concerns as discriminatory codes in Sharia law, polygamy, sexual rights and the intellectual rights of women.
Sunday 10 September 2006 More Muslims Arrive in U.S., After 9/11 DipAs the U.S. wrestles with questions of terrorism and immigration control, Muslims appear to be moving here again in surprising numbers.
nyt Darfur Trembles as Peacekeepers' Exit Looms Fear is mounting in refugee camps as it grows more likely that African Union peacekeepers will leave or be ejected.
Wednesday 30 August 2006 Canadian woman to lead Muslim group
A Canadian-born convert who believes religious authority has been used to suppress women and that imams need female counterparts is the first female head of North America's largest and oldest Muslim organization. Heba Aly reports.
Mon 07/08/2006 nyt Sorting Out Life as Muslims and Marines
The passage home from Iraq has been difficult for veterans, but especially fraught for Muslim Americans. video
56 min 40 sec - Jun 28, 2006 movie Charlie Rose -Gaza with Mort Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief of U.S. News & World Report, Khalil Jahshan of Pepperdine ...
Monday Jun 19, 2006 nyt U.S. Muslim Clerics Seek a Modern Middle Ground American Muslims want to live their faith but not succumb to American materialism or Islamic extremism.
Friday Jun 16, 2006 nyt
U.S. Muslims Confront Taboo on Nursing Homes Many Muslim families are trying to reconcile Islamic teachings on caring for elders with the modern realities.
Wed 14/06/2006 ONTREAL: IRAQI CLERIC ISSUES RULING Tuesday Jun 6, 2006 Canadian Muslim groups are expressing shock about the terrorist operation and its results. The Muslim Canadian Congress says Muslim Canadians were stunned after hearing that young members of their community would contemplate carrying out terror attacks. The Canadian arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says it condemns terrorism in all forms. The group is asking Canadian Muslims to fully co-operate with Canadian security agencies in order to combat any terrorist activities. Families of those charged say they were stunned by the terrorist bust. The father of one of the accused, a 30-year-old computer programmer from Mississauga, says the charges are crazy and make no sense. The brother of another suspect said the people who were arrested are good people who go to the mosque and to school.
Tuesday Jun 6, 2006 6 Arrested in Canada Raid Attended the Same Mosque The mosque near Toronto is one of the few public pieces of information that clearly link any of the 17 suspects.
Friday May 19, 2006 Muslim's Loss of Dutch Citizenship Stirs Storm The case of the Somali-born Dutch legislator is the latest in a series of tough decisions involving violations of Dutch immigration rules.
May 11, 2006 Muslim girls allowed private swim test The most recent chapter in the argument centres on a request from three Muslim students at Antoine-Brossard high school in the South Shore suburb of Brossard, who asked to be excused from swimming class because their religion rejects sharing a pool with men. Monday May 1, 2006 Minds blossom behind the veil Monday Apr 10, 2006 rci Delegates at a conference of leading Muslims in Europe say that prejudice and discrimination against Muslims is dangerously high. More than 100 Muslim leaders or imams began a three-day meeting in Vienna on Saturday. They're looking at ways to better integrate Muslims into European society. About 20 million Muslims live in Europe, forming the second-largest religion in many countries. Delegates at the conference said that Europe's negative attitudes toward Muslims can lead to a vicious circle of isolation and radicalisation of immigrant youths. The head of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, Beate Winkler, told delegates that European Muslims must work more actively against Islamic extremism, forced marriages and spousal abuse. She said that European leaders could foster better relations by helping to build mosques and aiding in the education of Muslim leaders.
Thursday Mar 23, 2006 rci The Quebec Human Rights Commission has rendered a decision in the case of a complaint brought three years ago by a group of Muslim students at l'École de Technologie Supérieure. The students contended they had been the victims of religious discrimination because the school refused to provide them with a space to pray. In its decision, the Commission ruled that the school's secular status doesn't absolve it from the duty to be accommodating toward Muslim students. However, the ruling also notes that a demand to provide a space to pray exclusively reserved to one group of students could constitute an "excessive constraint" because it would encourage similar demands from students of other faiths. The Commission suggests a multi-faith chapel or empty classrooms as possibilities. L'École de Technologie Supérieure is affiliated with l'Université du Québec à Montréal.
Thursday Mar 23, 2006
Sunday Mar 19, 2006 nyt The Great British-Pakistani-Muslim Hope By PAT JORDAN Monday Mar 13, 2006 rci TORONTO: CANADIANS DEMONSTRATE FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH In a landmark ruling, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ordered two white supremacists to cease their activity on the Internet. The Tribunal said that the men, Alex Kulbashian of Toronto and James Richardson of London, Ontario, posted messages included Holocaust jokes and songs about blacks, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and other minorities. They face fines of CDN$13,000 and are liable for damages to a complainant of CDN$5,000. The complaint was lodged four yearas ago by a lawyer and human rights advocate in Ottawa, Richard Warman. Mr. Warman was among those vilified on the Internet. In reaction to the ruling, Mr. Warman said that "it shows human rights laws work." The ruling is believed to be the first time that a Canadian Internet web-hosting service has been found liable for hate messages.
Sunday Mar 12, 2006 nyt Muslims Express Anger and Hope at Danish Conference By SOUAD MEKHENNET Sunday Mar 12, 2006 nyt For Muslim Who Says Violence Destroys Islam, Violent Threats By JOHN M. BRODER Tuesday Mar 7, 2006 nyt Tending to Muslim Hearts and Islam's Future By ANDREA ELLIOTT Sunday Feb 26, 2006 nyt What Does Islam Look Like? By HOLLAND COTTER Monday Feb 20, 2006 nyt History Illuminates the Rage of Muslims By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN Tuesday Feb 14, 2006 Canada catches up with the cartoon controversy as it slowly diminishes in the rest of the world
CANBERRA: Muslims who to live
under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia,
as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror
attacks. A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty
to Australia at a special meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, he and
his ministers made it clear that extremists would face a crackdown.
Treasurer Peter Costello hinted that some radical clerics could be asked
to leave the country if they did not accept that Australia was a secular
state and its laws were made by parliament. "If those are not your values,
if you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then
Australia is not for you," he said on national television. "I'd be saying
to clerics who are teaching that there are two laws governing people in
Australia, one the Australian law and another, the Islamic law, that this
is false. If you can't agree with parliamentary law, independent courts,
democracy, and would prefer Sharia law, and have the opportunity to go to
another country which practices it, perhaps, then, that's a better
option," Costello said. Asked whether he meant radical
clerics would be forced to leave, he said those with dual citizenship
could possibly be asked move to the other country. Education Minister
Brendan Nelson later told reporters that Muslims who did not want to
accept local values should "clear off". "Basically, people who don't want
to be Australians, and they don't want to live by Australian values and
understand them, well then they can basically clear off," he said.
Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying
he supported spies monitoring the nation's mosques. BRITS, AMERICANS and
CANADIANS.....ARE YOU LISTENING? 14 feb 2000 Thursday Feb 9, 2006 nyt At Mecca Meeting, Cartoon Outrage Crystallized Thursday Feb 9, 2006 nyt A Startling New Lesson in the Power of Imagery Thursday Feb 9, 2006 Cartoons of the Prophet: A Pitfall Trap 
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The chief Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric has issued a fatwa in response to the recent arrest in Toronto of 17 Canadian-born Muslim terrorism suspects. It was made public by one of the representatives of Ayatollah ali al-Sistani at a news conference in Montreal. The fatwa calls on all Muslims to act in the best interests of the countries where they live. The representative added that all Muslim immigrants must respect the laws of their new countries and not do anything to worsen the situation of Muslims there.
Religion makes ripples in pool
Montreal-area school focus for debate
SEAN GORDON QUEBEC BUREAU CHIEF
MONTREAL—The decision to close a high school pool to give three Muslim girls a private swimming class is stoking debate over the place of faith in Quebec's public institutions.At issue is the practice known as "reasonable accommodation" for religious views, one that's increasingly common in a city that's home to most of Quebec's immigrants.Parents say the decision by Commission Scolaire Marie-Victorin, with more that 40,000 students in 80 schools, risks encouraging "segregation in the name of religion."The board argues it is simply respecting provisions of a recent Supreme Court judgment on wearing Sikh kirpans (ceremonial daggers) in classrooms that set limits on restricting religious rights.
In early February, during the international uproar over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper, a women's university here in the capital of the United Arab Emirates announced it had fired an American professor for distributing copies of the cartoons to her students.
British court backs school in fight over Muslim attire
Britain's highest appeals court ruled Wednesday that a school had not blocked access to education for a Muslim teenager who refused to wear the standard uniform.
How a lightweight named Amir Khan is changing the face of boxing.
As many as 150 people demonstrated in front of the Danish consulate in Toronto on Saturday in support of free speech and the publication of controversial editorial cartoons depicting the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. Some demonstrators waved large Danish flags and carried signs about the importance of freedom of expression. "Some of us will not stand idly and meekly by while a principle fundamental to any free society is violently and senselessly threatened," a co-organizer of the demonstration, Daniel Dale, told the cheering crowd. "We will not stand idly and meekly by while a democracy and ally is violently and senselessly attacked." The rally was inspired by a similar demonstration last month at the Danish embassy in Washington, D.C. Similar events are planned in London, England, in Sydney, Australia, as well as in large American cities. The cartoons were first published in the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, last September. They've been widely denounced by Muslims.
A conference produced calls for dialogue but also protests over Denmark's refusal to apologize for cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.[Tell them to move away]
A provocative interview on Al Jazeera has turned Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-American psychiatrist, into an international sensation.
Nothing brings one Brooklyn imam more joy than guiding Muslim singles to marriage, his way of fashioning a future for his faith
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Interactive Feature: An Imam in America
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A number of new shows tell us very different things about the reception in the West of a cultural category called "Islam."
Riots over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad are the latest manifestations of battles that once took place within the West.
This is Leadership with guts!
The way it is. The way it should be. Our men and women died in
two world wars to get us this country and we are giving it away.
Grow some hair!
By HASSAN M. FATTAH
A meeting of leaders of the world's 57 Muslim nations in December became the turning point for opposition to the cartoons.
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Why a cartoon can sometimes be enough to provoke violence
Muslims have alienated the public rather than winning sympathy against the racism they were protesting against.
thanks to Ron WR
Thursday Feb 9, 2006 nyt Muslim Protests Against Cartoons Spread
By CARLOTTA GALL and CRAIG S. SMITH
At least five protesters died in Afghanistan during Muslim protests over Danish cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad.
Thursday Feb 9, 2006 ts Hate behind right-wing blogburst
While Muslim religious extremists are rioting in the streets around the world over cartoons, the right-wing blogosphere has been staging its own "blogburst": the act of reproducing the offending depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Antonia Zerbisias reports.
Sunday Feb 5, 2006 nyt Islam on the Outskirts of the Welfare State
By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL
Sweden is discovering that it has a Muslim-immigrant issue.
Sunday Feb 5, 2006 nyt Embassies in Syria Are Burned in Furor Over Prophet Cartoon
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thousands of aggrieved Syrians torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus and burned European flags.
Sunday Feb 5, 2006 wn
So far as the cartoons are concerned, I see them as a straight-forward freedom of the press issue. If Muslims can burn our flags, defecate on our religious literature, deface our religious structures, call for the annihilation of various western peoples, decapitate our citizens for better global TV ratings, etc, I don't see any particular reason not to amuse oneself with attempts at seeing this as funny. Muslims are fortunate that we are resorting to humor--if we took them seriously, they would beg that we return to cartoons.I do notice, however, how intimidated Western media has been, at least in the U.S. Newspapers that put our dead on the front page, postulate that "if it bleeds; it leads," and don't hesitate to print any "story" that will boost sales regardless how tasteless, have been intimidated into not printing these cartoons. And, again, if we continue down that road, we ultimately will self-censor ourselves into putting women into veils and performing FGM on our infant daughters. (Otherwise, something terrible would happen to us.) We will not be conquered; we will conquer ourselves. Indeed, I would put it the other way: every newspaper and television station should publish these cartoons--as an act of defiance.
Thanky you Diana
Sunday Feb 5, 2006 ts Embassies in Syria torched
Rage against caricatures of Islam's revered prophet poured out across the Muslim world today, with aggrieved believers calling for executions. The Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus were both set on fire.
Danish envoy says `dialogue' only solution
Denmark's ambassador says he's confident Canadian Muslims can maintain a dialogue over the controversy surrounding cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, writes Surya Bhattacharya.
Saturday Feb 4, 2006 ts Free, even to offend
In recent years, some Christians have been deeply offended by modern "art" that pictures Jesus's face on the lid of a "toilet altar." That has a Crucifix immersed in urine or offers a picture of the Virgin Mary smeared with elephant dung. Some see such images as a blasphemous affront to faith and an attack on believers.
Saturday Feb 4, 2006 nyt U.S. Says It Also Finds Cartoons of Muhammad Offensive
By JOEL BRINKLEY and IAN FISHER
Many Muslims consider it blasphemy to print any image of the Prophet Muhammad, let alone a cartoon that ridicules him.
Saturday Feb 4, 2006 ts Muslim stores join ban
The international controversy over Danish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad reverberated in Toronto yesterday ? with hurt and sadness in the mosques and action in stores.
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Fury rippled throughout the Muslim world Friday after cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, originally appearing in a Danish newspaper in September, were reprinted across Europe in a show of press freedom.
Saturday Feb 4, 2006 maisonneuve.org
DRAWING IRE
The
National and the Post (not available online) lead, and the rest of the
Big Seven front the growing furor among Muslims over editorial cartoons
depicting the Prophet Mohammed published in several European newspapers. The
Globe reports that protestors “from Indonesia to Pakistan to
Yemen burned flags, boycotted European goods and demanded an apology from
European governments for what they called the blasphemy against Islam by
the press.” The outrage peaked in Gaza, where gunmen surrounded
European Union offices, declaring it closed until apologies are presented.
The Al-aqsa Martyrs brigade issued a statement saying Danish, French, and
Norwegian citizens in the Palestinian territories risked becoming targets.
A German man was kidnapped in Nablus, but was later released. The cartoons
were first published by a Danish newspaper in September, but have since
been reprinted by newspapers in France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and the
Netherlands as a show of solidarity and “to challenge the Muslim
objections.”
La Presse (not available online) fronts an article about Canadian newspapers’ reticence to wade into the controversy by publishing the offending cartoons. It notes that, though Radio-Canada has been using the images in its broadcasts, it has since removed them from its website. Le Devoir and the Montreal Gazette have published editorials defending freedom of the press, with the Gazette boldly suggesting that “there is no offence. The principle of free expression is so essential that it transcends, must transcend, anyone's hurt feelings.” Prominent rights-lawyer Julius Grey tells La Presse Canadian newspapers should print the cartoons, arguing that “we have the right to publish passages of Mein Kampf or the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, especially if everyone’s talking about it, we have to be able to judge if it’s that terrible.”
THE DUTCH
ARE COMING! THE DUTCH ARE COMING!
CTV
News and the
Star go inside with and the
Globe editorializes about the Dutch parliament’s decision to
send troops to join the NATO mission in Afghanistan. Dutch politicians had
been reticent to enter the fray, citing popular opposition against the
US-led War on Terror. Dutch troops are now set to join Canadian and
British forces in the southern province of Uruzgan with an initial
deployment of an advance team on March 1 and troop numbers reaching 1,400
by August 1. Opponents argue that the presence of foreign troops is
increasing the tension in Afghanistan and question whether Dutch troops
can be any more successful than US ones at pacifying the troubled region.
The Globe argues the Dutch “did the right thing,” saying that
“if the Dutch had balked they would have let down the Afghans who
have suffered from decades of successive barbaric regimes.”
Friday Feb 3, 2006 globe Cartoon fury grows
Danish embassy building in Indonesia briefly stormed; Pakistan's legislators condemn publication of the caricatures of Prophet Mohammed
Friday Feb 3, 2006 ts Cartoonist: We don't apologize for opinions
You would think that after drafting an editorial cartoon that brought the wrath of Islam down on his head, a man would think twice about stepping back into the fray.
Friday Feb 3, 2006 ts Rights, religion clash in cartoon uproar
Danish cartoons that have sparked outrage, protests and threats of kidnappings across the Arab world go far beyond concerns over blasphemy, experts say. Stuart Laidlaw reports.
Thursday Feb 2, 2006 ts Denmark embroiled in Muslim controversy
The protracted, still-raging controversy over a Danish newspaper's caricature of the Prophet Muhammad is a case study of the West's troubled relations with Muslims.
Saturday Jan 14, 2006 nyt Stampede During Pilgrimage to Mecca Kills 345
By HASSAN M. FATTAH
As many as 1,000 may have been injured, the Saudi Red Crescent Society said, in the deadliest such event since 1990.
Friday Jan 13, 2006
- Why Tragedy Struck the Hajj
- The pilgrimage requires millions of Muslims to perform the same rituals in a limited space
- Photo Essay: In the Footsteps of the Prophet
- Archive: A Letter from Mecca
2005
Sunday Dec 25, 2005 rcu TORONTO: MUSLIMS GATHER FOR THREE-DAY CONFERENCE
More than 15,000 Canadian Muslims are gathered in the city of Toronto for a 3-day conference on Islam. This is the fourth year that the event, which is organised by young Muslims born in Canada, has been held in Toronto. The conference aims to bring Canadian Muslims closer together and to give Islam a more tolerant image, particularly in countries where Muslims are in a minority, as is the case in Canada. One of the speakers, Koweiti professor Tarek al-Suwaidan, called on Muslim countries to espouse democracy, but without succumbing to the West's materialistic values. Professor al-Suwaidan also announced his desire to create in Canada, within two years, an English-language, Islamic satellite television station for Muslims around the world.
Tuesday Dec 6, 2005 rci The Muslim Canadian Congress has thrown its support behind the left-leaning New Democratic Party in the election campaign. The Congress bases its policy on what it considers stringent federal security measures aimed at Muslims. The Muslim lobby says the NDP has fought to ensure that detained Muslims are treated fairly.
Wednesday Nov 16, 2005 ts New law to ban religious tribunals
Divorce and other family law matters in Ontario will no longer be settled through sharia or any other faith-based system under legislation proposed yesterday.
Wed1235 A propos the evangelical church in Texas that operates "Hell House", Alexandra Tcheremenska writes: "Interesting comment especially in light of the muslim clerics using the Pakistan earthquake as a tool to increase faith - they explain the earthquake as a message from Allah (in the holy month of Ramadan) that there are too many sinners amongst them. Even children's deaths are explained away as symbolic punishment of the parents for raising the kids in sinful ways. Apparently all that is creating quite the emotional havoc and the pakistani psychiatrists are quite concerned that these interpretations do more harm than good and do not allow people to recover from the disaster."
Monday Sep 12, 2005 ts
The Liberal government at Queen's Park inherited the political problem of sharia and has been wrestling with a solution for the better part of a year.
Monday Sep 12, 2005 rci
TORONTO: ONTARIO TO DISALLOW SHARIA LAW
Ontario's premier, Dalton McGuinty, said on Sunday that Ontario would not be the first jurisdiction in the West to allow Muslim Sharia law to settle family disputes. He said that his government would also move quickly to disallow the use of existing religious tribunals allowed under Ontario's arbitration act. The act permits civil disputes to be resolved through an independent arbiter if both parties agree. Religious groups including Catholics and Jews have used the act to settle questions of family law without resorting to law courts. A former Ontario attorney general, Marion Boyd, had moved to change the act. Miss Boyd said that new safeguards could be added to the act that would allow Sharia law to be used in Muslim family disputes. But some Muslim women's groups argue that Sharia law is unfair to women and could be used to discriminate against them. Novelist Margaret Atwood and well-known social activists Maude Barlow, June Callwood and Shirley Douglas have joined a group called the No Religious Arbitration Coalition that opposes any move to allow Sharia law to be used in Ontario. In an open letter to Premier McGuinty, the group said that religion should be kept separate from the business of state. "Religion should simply remain an important part of the lives of citizens but not of public law," said the letter. Among other well-known Canadians who belong to the Coalition are former prime minister Joe Clark and a former member of parliament, Flora MacDonald.
Tuesday Sep 6, 2005 ts The judging of the judge
Any reasonably informed Canadian has to wonder if judges can truly be impartial when the attorney general ? the chief litigant in the justice system ? can wreck their careers, says an Ontario judge fighting to save his job.
Tuesday Sep 6, 2005 rci OTTAWA: PROTESTS TO BE HELD AGAINST ISLAMIC LAW IN CANADA Public protests will be held this week in 11 Canadian and European cities against the possibility that the Canadian province of Ontario might introduce Islam's Shariah law. The participants will be members of a coalition of almost 100 groups who oppose the idea of allowing Islamic law to be used in matters of family arbitration. The Ontario government is considering whether to adopt a report which says that Shariah law could be introduced as part of the province's family law and would be in conformity with Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Opponents of the plan claim that Shariah discriminates against women and is therefore incompatible with Canadian legal tradition. The protests in Canada will take place in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Waterloo and Victoria.
Saturday Sep 3, 2005 ts Muslim leaders take Civics 101
Mufti Ibrahim Kureshi is a Muslim religious scholar certified to issue edicts, but the 28-year-old North York native admits he's not very well versed on Canadian legislation and other matters of importance in this country.
Saturday Aug 13, 2005 ts Not welcome in Blair`s U.K.
In his announcement last week that "the rules of the game are changing" and that he plans to crack down hard on Britain`s Muslim extremists, Prime Minister Tony Blair may have had Omar Bakri Mohammed squarely in mind.
Sunday Aug 7, 2005 ts
`A perfect lesson for humanity`
MONTREAL—Take a Muslim cabbie from New York City, a Jewish businessman from Montreal and a forgotten suitcase containing diamonds and precious stones and what do you get? [but not here a cabbie did not return a $900 camera!]
Friday Aug 5, 2005 The chief economist of CIBC World Markets has been sent to sensitivity training. Jeff Rubin angered Canada's most prominent Islamic lobby group with language he used in a report on oil prices. He used the words mullah and sheikh, which offended the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations. The group wrote the bank saying it was concerned that Mr. Rubin was promoting the stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. Two weeks after receiving the complaint, CIBC World Markets ordered sensitivity training for Mr. Rubin.[what a pitty]
Saturday Jul 30, 2005 CSIS angered by imam`s campaign Canada`s spy service is waging a rare public battle against an outspoken Scarborough imam who claims agents who are supposed to fight terrorism are instead terrorizing Canadian Muslims.
Friday Jul 22, 2005 About 120 Muslim cleric leaders, or imams, across Canada released a joint declaration on Thursday to denounce terrorism and to challenge Muslims to confront extremists. The declaration announced at a mosque in Toronto was the first document of its kind in Canada. "Anyone who claims to be a Muslim and participates in any way in the taking of innocent life is betraying the very spirit and letter of Islam," said the statement. The comments reflected sentiments that the imams have been pronouncing individually to Canada's Islamic community, which has about 600,000 members. A similar statement was made last week by imams in Britain following the first attacks on London's transit system.
Monday Jul 18, 2005 ts
Muslim leaders order fatwa against suicide bombers
LONDON—Britain`s largest Sunni Muslim group yesterday brought the full weight of Islamic law against the perpetrators of the July 7 attacks on London`s transport system, issuing a binding religious fatwa against suicide terror.
Wed Jun 15, 2005 Wed1215
The application of Sharia law for arbitration in family law is sanctioned in Ontario but not in Québec. Those not in agreement with Québec’s stand see it as a binding contract between parties, with religion playing an important part but not changing the contractual nature of the process.
Tuesday Jun 7, 2005 ts
Ismaili Muslims reaching out
The Ismaili Muslim community plans to build a massive religious and cultural complex in east Toronto in a broader effort to reach out to other Canadians.
Thursday 11 Mar 2004 ts
Bush should be talking straight to Muslims
The fact that the White House spokesman Scott McClellan spent part of a briefing last week excoriating Newsweek — for printing a now-retracted article alleging the desecration of the Qur`an at Guantanamo Bay — and telling its editors that they had a responsibility to "help repair the damage" to America`s standing in the Arab-Muslim world, while not offering a single word of condemnation for those whOWN out and killed 16 people in Afghanistan in riots linked to the article, pretty much explains why America is struggling to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world today.
Sunday May 15, 2005 rci GUANTANAMO
The U-S government is vowing to investigate a report that US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba desecrated Islam's holy book, the Koran. The promise came after after protests spread in the Muslim world. At least 16 people have been killed and dozens injured in a fourth day of anti-US protests in Afghanistan. Muslims are angry over reports that US interrogators placed the Koran on toilets and even flushed one copy down a toilet.
Sunday May 15, 2005 rci MONTREAL: UN WARNS CANADA AGAINST ISLAMIC TRIBUNALS
A representative of the United Nations is warning Canada against allowing Islamic tribunals in the country. Yakin Erturk, the U-N's special rapporteur for violence against women, issued the warning Saturday in Montreal. She said it would be dangerous for Canada to allow Islamic tribunals to take hold, since the interpretation of Islamic law can vary widely from person to person. Mrs Erturk is a Turkish Muslim. The province of Ontario is currently studying the possibility of allowing the creation of such tribunals. But it has yet to make a final decision in the matter, which is generating intense interest and controversy across the country.
Saturday Mar 26, 2005 ts
Sharia law out of question, Quebec government insists
No, non, no way.Ontario may feel it should or must allow Muslim Canadians to use religious sharia law to settle family disputes, but the Quebec government says it`s out of the question there.
Sunday Mar 27, 2005 OTTAWA: LEADING CANADIAN MUSLIM CLERIC URGING TOLERANCEmBR< The leading muslim cleric in Ottawa, Imam Gamal Solaiman, urged muslims in Canada's capital on Friday to embrace the ethnic variety that exists across the country. His sermon and subsequent remarks to the media came in the wake of a controversy earlier in the week surrounding a student at a local Islamic school. The student submitted a creative writing assignment in which he expressed hatred toward Jews. Two teachers who were involved in producing the assignment were suspended. The mosque was filled to capacity as the imam heard the imam preach the Koran's principles of fairness. An official of the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations, Riad Saloojee, agreed with the imam's pronouncement. He admonished the teachers for failing to use the assignment as an opprtunity to teach tolerance.
Saturday Mar 26, 2005 ts
Sharia law out of question, Quebec government insists
No, non, no way.Ontario may feel it should or must allow Muslim Canadians to use religious sharia law to settle family disputes, but the Quebec government says it`s out of the question there.
Thursday Jan 6, 2005 A National Post (subscriber only) story by Steven Edwards, "Where is Muslim relief effort?",highlights the low level of wealthy Arab and Muslim countries' response to the South Asia devastation. Noting that "aid from Arab and other Muslim countries has barely registered a blip" despite windfall profits from record oil prices, he points out that Saudi Arabia has pledged only $30 million and Kuwait $10 million.
It is argued by some authorities that many Arab countries have closed charities under pressure from the United States because of suspicion they were financing terrorism. This left fewer places to make donations. (What about Red Crescent? DTN) Another excuse is that Arab countries lack the communication skills found in the West, so have had difficulty in publicizing what they are doing.
On the other hand, Canadian Muslims have been donating generously, a spokesperson for the Canadian Islamic Conference (CIC) points out that "Every mosque in Toronto has been raising money consistently almost to the tune of $1-million ... but not one word has been mentioned in any of our newspapers".
Thursday Jan 6, 2005 cd Man risks expulsion over post-fast sex
A man was sentenced to 40 days in jail yesterday (time already served) for menacing his wife when she refused him sex. Zaki Baddaz also risks deportation to his native Morocco. He had pleaded guilty to assault, unlawful confinement, uttering threats and resisting arrest. His wife said that on Nov. 14 - the final night of the holy month Ramadan, when Muslims fast and abstain from smoking and sexual activity - Baddaz demanded to have sex with her but she said no. They fought, and she ran to a neighbour's house with her children.
Sunday Jan 2, 2005 ts
Religious extremism is back
In Britain, a popular play is closed down when Sikhs attack a Birmingham theatre that features a scene of violence in a temple. In the Netherlands, an activist filmmaker is shot and stabbed to death after producing a documentary on the abuse of Muslim women.
Monday Dec 27, 2004 ts Muslim women deserve choice
I can appreciate that many are concerned about the exploitation of Muslim women. However, the discourse is now bordering on the racist.
Sunday Dec 5, 2004 Muslim group eyes suit against CKAC
A local Muslim group says it is contemplating legal action against French-language radio station CKAC and on-air psychiatrist Pierre Mailloux over anti-Islamic comments broadcast in January. M'Dean Mazboudi, vice-president of the Conseil Musulman de Montreal, consulted this week with lawyer Daniel Paquin about suing CKAC and Mailloux or demanding a public apology. The Quebec Press Council agreed with Mazboudi in June that some of Mailloux's comments were inappropriate. Mazboudi said he received a written apology from CKAC in March.
Sunday Nov 28, 2004 ts Fear replaces tolerance as racism sweeps Holland
UDEN, Netherlands—The youngest victims of a violent xenophobic binge that has shaken this country`s tolerant self-image fearfully went back to school this week.
Friday Nov 19, 2004 MUSLIM PARENTS URGED TO KEEP KIDS IN ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA CLASSES The Ontario government is urging Muslim parents not to take their children out of classes that discuss same-sex marriages. {they (the parents) should be deported if they wont want to learn and understand the way of others]
Tuesday Nov 9, 2004 ts
Secret evidence `Kafkaesque`
OTTAWA—The jailing of a Muslim man based on secret evidence and closed hearings is both surreal and unconstitutional, a court has been told.
 BBC In pictures: Ramadan worldwide Friday,15 October, 2004 |
Sunday Oct 17, 2004 ts
Progressive Muslims challenge tradition
Roshan Jamal has never seen herself as a traditional Muslim woman. The Toronto chartered accountant wears business suits to work and doesn`t cover her hair in public. And for a long time, she felt she didn`t fit in at Islamic centres where men and women were segregated, used separate entrances and women were covered up.
Sunday Oct 17, 2004 cbc
MUSLIM STUDENTS IN MONTREAL DENIED PRAYER ROOMS
As the holy month of Ramadan begins, Muslim students will have to pray
in cramped stairwells at two Montreal engineering schools because the
institutions won't rent space to let them practise their faith. [good pray at home]
 The Muslim world The war for Islam's heart Sep 16th 2004 |
Sunday Aug 8, 2004 ts
Rallying cry for Muslims in Canada
ORILLIA—One of the greatest dangers facing the West is increased alienation among North American Muslims, says British historian and best-selling author Karen Armstrong.
Sunday Aug 1, 2004 cbc
MUSLIMS, HINDUS CLASH IN INDIA, KILLING 2
Muslims and Hindus threw acid on police officers and burned buildings in
western India on Wednesday, in the third day of religious riots that
have killed two people and wounded more than a dozen others.
 Onward, Muslim soldiers? Jul 29th 2004 |
Monday Jul 26, 2004 Two-thirds of our Muslims regularly go to mosque
Islam is the fastest-growing religion in Canada. The number of people calling themselves Muslim more than doubled from 253,000 in 1991 to nearly 580,000 in 2001. They now make up 2 per cent of the Canadian population, which is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, Protestant or of no religion.
Monday 5 Jul 2004 rci TORONTO: MUSLIM SECT ENDS ANNUAL CONVENTION A muslim sect ended its annual convention on Sunday in the Canadian city of Toronto. About 30,000 members of the Ahmadiyya sect heard an address by their spiritual leader, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad. The convention also served as a kind of spiritual retreat. Delegates discussed a variety of issues, including the treatment of prisoners around the world. the life of the prophet Mohammed, and the study of the Koran. The Ahmadiyya sect was founded in 1889 in what is now Pakistan. It now claims to have 160 million followers around the world. But members in countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh report being persecuted by radical Islamic groups over differing interpretations of the Koran. Two months ago, the U.S. assistant secretary of state, Christina Rocca, angered Bangladesh when she rebuked the government for banning the sect's publications.
Friday Jun 11, 2004 ts
Islamic law proposal to undergo review
The Ontario government will review plans to use Islamic law to settle family disputes before the practice is set to begin in the province.
Monday May 31, 2004 cbc
RADICAL U.K. IMAM ARRESTED ON U.S. EXTRADITION WARRANT
Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was arrested on Thursday in
Britain, after the United States charged him in connection with crimes
in support of Islamic extremism.
Monday 16 Feb 2004 ts
Scarf ban? Not in Toronto
Every day students in Toronto schools see classmates wearing religious symbols — crosses on Christians, skullcaps on Jewish students, head scarves on Muslim girls following the Qur`anic instruction to dress modestly. They also see few outward signs of religious affiliation.
Saturday Jan 24, 2004 bbc
US Muslims flex political muscle American Muslims could play a crucial part in deciding the outcome of this year's presidential election.
The winter sunshine and blue skies are deceptive for a cold wind blows through Ohio. The forecasters say with the wind chill it is minus 50C.
Wednesday Jan 7, 2004 cbc
MILITARY WELCOMES ITS FIRST MUSLIM CHAPLAIN
The Canadian Forces' first Muslim chaplain began work this week at the
Edmonton Garrison, bringing a little more religious diversity to the
military.
Sunday Jan 4, 2004 TORONTO: NORTH AMERICAN MUSLIMS MEET TO DISCUSS CONCERNS Canada's largest city, Toronto, is hosting a three-day international conference of Muslims. Thousands of practitioners from across North America are attending to discuss such issues as religious isolation and the Muslim culture in the aftermath of September 11th (2001). Since then, many Muslims have said they feel isolated and unfairly singled out by society and law enforcement. Another concern is the assimilation of Muslims.
2003
Monday Dec 22, 2003 bbc
Yemen's new anti-terror strategy The BBC has been given exclusive access to Yemen's controversial new strategy for defeating al-Qaeda cells
Monday Dec 22, 2003 ts
French Muslim women march against scarf ban
First protest against Chirac's proposal `Where is my liberty?' placards say
Monday Dec 22, 2003 bbc
'MY VEIL, MY CHOICE,' SAY PARIS PROTESTERS
Hundreds of Muslim women took to the streets of Paris Sunday to protest
against a proposed ban on head scarves in public schools.
Wednesday Nov 5, 2003 bbc 
Row over Egypt's 'book of love'
An Egyptian poet will defy an edict by Muslim authorities calling for his latest book to be withdrawn because of its explicit sexual nature.
Ahmed Shahawi said the ruling against Commandments of Love for Women had nothing to do with religion.
Monday Sep 8, 2003 ts
GENERAL'S 'SATAN' REMARKS FREEDOM OF SPEECH: RUMSFELD
U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is downplaying a three-star
general's controversial comments about Satan and Muslim extremists.
 
Image problem
America's standing has plummeted in the Muslim world Thursday Oct 2, 2003 |
Sunday Sep 28, 2003 np
Ignore Muslim anger at your peril, Musharraf warns Bush
The Muslim world is so full of hatred for the United States that President George W. Bush must do something positive in the region, such as capturing fugitive terrorist Osama bin Laden or restoring order to Afghanistan, warns Pakistan's president.
.....Mr. Bush could score a major public relations victory by capturing Mr. bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader who has inspired a generation of downtrodden Islamic youth to hate and fight the West, said Gen. Musharraf.
The longer Mr. bin Laden remains at large, the more his followers will be emboldened, he said.
Gen. Musharraf became emotional when asked about Pakistan's continued exclusion from the Commonwealth, a result of his seizure of power four years ago in a bloodless coup.
He said he has "a total disappointment with the Commonwealth" because of Pakistan's continued exclusion while dictators such as Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe are allowed access to the club.
Canada, he said, has been supportive of Pakistan's attempts to rejoin the Commonwealth, but Gen. Musharraf said he isn't losing any sleep over the issue.
He blamed India, who he labelled as an enemy of his country, for sowing opposition towards Pakistan.
OTTAWA: PAKISTANI LEADER SAYS NUCLEAR ARMS UNDER LOCK AND KEY
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says his country's nuclear
arsenal is tightly guarded. He told the foreign affairs committee of
Canada's House of Commons that there is no danger that the weapons
would fall into the wrong hands. The Pakistani leader added that
Pakistani nuclear security arrangements are far more stringent than
India's. Mr. Musharraf also defended his country's record on fighting
terrorism. There has been criticism that his government allows
Afghanistan's Taliban fighters to stage attacks from western Pakistan
on their neighbouring homeland. Mr. Musharraf says no army in the
world could entirely subdue that remote, wild mountain area which
lacks roads, and telecommunications. The Pakistani president said
that even British troops dared not enter the region when that country
dominated the subcontinent. Mr. Musharraf has concluded a two-day
visit to Ottawa.
Saturday Sep 20, 2003 TORONTO: AL-QUEDA CLAIMED TO BE OPERATING IN CITY U.S. counter-terrorism officials have claimed that a Muslim group in the Toronto area, Canada's biggest city, may have contacts with the al-Qaeda terrorist network. The sources claim that the World Congress of Muslim Youth was founded by Osama bin Laden's nephew and is based in Mississauga, a Toronto suburb. According to the Americans, the group publishes a newsletter which preaches Islamic jihad and war against Jews. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation claims the group targets young people between the ages of 14 and 18.
Saturday Sep 13, 2003 cbc
MUSLIM CLERICS SAY OTTAWA COULDN'T HELP THEM
Two moderate Muslim clerics from Toronto say they will complain to the
Department of Foreign Affairs about the department's inability to help
them when they were seized in the United States last Thursday.
Saturday Sep 13, 2003 cbc
TORONTO MUSLIM CLERICS WANT APOLOGY FROM U.S.
Two Muslim clerics from TorontOWN the United States to apologize for holding them in Florida on Thursday - the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
Saturday Sep 13, 2003 cbc
TORONTO MEN ARRESTED WHILE FLYING TO FLORIDA
Two men from Toronto spent Thursday night in a jail in Florida,
apparently because they were Muslims on a flight to the United States on
the anniversary of Sept. 11.
Monday Sep 15, 2003 TORONTO: MUSLIM CANADIAN WARNS AGAINST TRAVEL TO US
The Muslim Canadian Congress is asking Canadian Muslims not to visit the United States until the Canadian government can assure their safety. The organization is also asking Canadian Muslims not to use US products and services. The organization made the appeal after two Canadian Muslim clerics returned home to Toronto. The clerics were pulled off a plane and thrown in jail in Florida for 16 hours by American immigration officials on Thursday, the second anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks in the US. Fifty-seven-year-old Ahmad Kutty and 38-year-old Abdool Hamid were flying from Toronto to Orlando, Florida to lead a prayer service. But during a stopover in Fort Lauderdale, they were intercepted by immigration agents. The two clerics, who are moderates with no criminal records, were released without being charged. Mr. Hamid says he was detained because a name similar to his is on a terrorist watch list. He said American authorities told the clerics they had chosen to fly on the wrong day.
Fri. Sep 12, 2003 OTTAWA:
CANADA WANTS SAUDIS TO INVESTIGATE SAMPSON'S ALLEGED
MISTREATMENT
Canada has asked Saudi Arabia for an open and transparent
investigation into the treatment of a Canadian who spent nearly three
years in a Saudi jail. The Canadian, William Sampson, was charged
with murder in a car bombing that killed a British man. Mr. Sampson
says he was framed by Muslim militant extremists, but he and five
Britons were sentenced either to death or to long prison terms for
the crime. The Saudi royal family abruptly pardoned them last month.
Mr. Sampson says he was tortured while in prison and he's accusing
the Canadian government of doing little to secure his release. On
Friday, Canada's foreign affairs department in Ottawa summoned the
Saudi ambassador to a formal meeting. Mohammed Al-Hussaini was told
that Canada takes Mr. Sampson's allegations seriously, and wants an
investigation. Mr. Al-Hussaini has denied the allegations.
Thu, 11 Sep 2003 cbc
BRITISH MUSLIMS MARK SEPT. 11 WITH MIXED EMOTIONS
There was a sombre ceremony in London on Thursday. A plaque was
unveiled in the garden in front of the American embassy. On it are
engraved the names of the 67 British victims of Sept. 11. [it is hard to like these people ]
Thursday Sep 4, 2003 bbc
Islam is the fastest growing major religion in the world.
After 11 September 2001, the faith's politics and radical groups are firmly under the microscope.
BBC News Online looks at a range of Muslim nations of the world and considers in what ways their politics and societies can be viewed as Islamic.
Thursday Jul 3, 2003 MONTREAL: MUSLIM GROUP ADVISES AGAINST COLLABORATION WITH CSIS Canadian Muslims are being advised not to co-operate with the country's intelligence service. The Muslim Council of Montreal is accusing CSIS, the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, of targeting Muslims and Arabs since the deadly events of Sept. 11, 2001. At issue is the Canadian government's use of security certificates to detain suspected terrorists indefinitely, without laying criminal charges. The Council says Muslims should seek out local police forces, rather than CSIS, if they have any information regarding national security. It also warned them against travelling to the United States for reasons other than emergencies. A spokesman said that until the U.S. starts to respect human rights and freedoms the Council will consider it a dictatorship.
Friday Jun 27, 2003 
Islam and Africa It could be worse
Radicalism is on the rise, but most black African Muslims remain admirably moderate
ON PAPER, sub-Saharan Africa has what it takes to become a breeding ground for international terrorism. The continent has a lot of oppressive governments, a sprinkling of chaotic “failed states” and millions of Muslims, many of whom resent the West's military, economic and cultural hegemony. But can you name a single black African terrorist? Probably not, unless you count those, such as Robert Mugabe, who terrorise only their own people, and for secular ends. Radical Islamism, which has had such an explosive effect in the Middle East, has failed to catch fire below the Sahara
Monday Jun 9, 2003 gaz
Discrimination rising, local Muslims say
Yesterday's Forum on Discrimination against Arabs and Muslims, held at Concordia University allowed panelists to share stories of discrimination and suggest solutions. It also suggested repairing what was seen by most panelists as a damaging portrayal of Arabs and Muslims by the media. ..."I was born here," she said at yesterday's Forum on Discrimination against Arabs and Muslims, held at Concordia University. "I was just as afraid of what had happened as they (her tormentors) were."
MONTREAL: ARABS AND MUSLIMS SAY DISCRIMINATION GROWING Arabs and Muslims in Montreal say they are facing growing discrimination. Several groups gathered at Concordia University over the weekend to discuss the problem. They say Arabs and Muslims in Canada are increasingly being blamed for international events. Some participants said that since the terrorist attacks on the US in September, 2001, they have been subject to verbal attacks on downtown streets. One woman said she had been spat at. Participants and organizers want provincial and federal governments to bring in anti-discrimination measures such as hate-crime units. They say the units could investigate hate-crime incidents like the spray-painting of a swastika and the words "Death to Arabs" at a Montreal Muslim school. The conference will make recommendations for governments to help stop discrimination. There will also be suggestions about what Arab and Muslim communities can do to let fellow Canadians know that the Arab-Canadians and Muslim-Canadians are not a threat.
Sunday Jun 1, 2003 nyt
Historians Trace an Unholy Alliance: Religion and Nationalism
By ALEXANDER STILLE
Is religious sentiment, long considered the prime enemy of nationalism, actually one of its founding elements?
Saturday May 31, 2003 bbc
Muslims seek love online
An increasing number of Muslims are taking the stress out of arranged marriages by meeting their partners online.
Tuesday Apr 8, 2003 cbc
'Bin Laden tape' urges attacks
A tape purportedly of Osama Bin Laden urges Muslims to rise up against countries that support the war on Iraq.
Wednesday Mar 5, 2003 cbc
BLAIR TRIES TO SOOTHE ARAB CONCERNS
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has gone on a public relations blitz,
trying to soothe Muslim concerns about the U.S.-led war against Iraq.
Wednesday Mar 5, 2003 cbc
MUSLIM CLERIC TO BE BOOTED OUT OF BRITAIN
Britain has revoked the citizenship of a controversial Muslim cleric,
opening the way for his deportation to Yemen on terrorism charges.
Wednesday Mar 5, 2003 globe ap
Muslim leaders meet
Doha — Muslim leaders from around the world opened an emergency summit in Qatar on Wednesday, part of frantic diplomatic efforts to avert a U.S.-led war to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
The meeting of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference got off to a rocky start, with Iraq's second-in-command yelling insults at a Kuwaiti official who had interrupted his scathing speech against the United States and Kuwait.
 Saturday Mar 1, 2003 Bitter harvest Victims of India's vicious religious riots speak, one year on It is exactly one year after the incident in which 58 people were burned to death. Most of them were returning from the northern town of Ayodhya, the centre of a dispute between Muslims and Hindus over the building of a temple. |
Wednesday Feb 26, 2003 ts U.S. crackdown drives Muslims toward Canada Refugee claimants jam border posts
Monday Jan 13, 2003 cbc OPENING OF MUSLIM SUPERMARKET IN PARIS SUBURB CAUSES CONCERN A supermarket's decision to cater to its Muslim customers has sparked a debate in a Paris suburb.
Monday Jan 6, 2003 cbc
Angry Muslims turning to NDP
Many disappointed with Liberals' failure to protect them Anti-terror policies eroded allegiance, community warns
2002
Friday Dec 27, 2002 MANILA: CANADIAN-OWNED VEHICLE IN DEADLY AMBUSH Suspected Muslim rebels ambushed a vehicle owned by a Canadian mining company in the southern Philippines on Thursday. The attack killed 12 people and injured 10 others. All the victims were Filipinos. The attack followed a Christmas Eve bombing that killed 17 people, including a town mayor. Both were blamed on Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels, who denied involvement. A military spokesman says rebels attacked a vehicle belonging to a Calgary-based mining company, Toronto Ventures Incorporated Pacific.
Sunday Dec 22, 2002 TORONTO: CANADIANS STILL WARY OF MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS Hardened attitudes among Canadians toward immigration have not moderated much since the September 11th attacks on New York and Washington in 2001. A new public opinion survey conducted by the Toronto-based Strategic Counsel found 44% of the 1,400 Canadians questioned last month support restrictions on immigration from Muslim countries. That's down slightly from the 49% figure in a poll done one year ago. Forty-two per cent of Canadians oppose any such controls. The survey, commissioned by Maclean's magazine, Southam News and Global TV, asked respondents to assess various ways the government might respond to the threat of terrorism.
Saturday Dec 21, 2002 cc 'Mosaic' faltering: poll
The image of the "Canadian mosaic" as a benevolent tapestry of different cultures and religions is challenged by a new poll that indicates a strong core of support for keeping Muslim immigrants out of the country more than a year after the trauma of Sept. 11, 2001.
Thursday Dec 19, 2002 cc Muslim nations trail in freedoms
While the world moves toward greater democracy, Muslim countries are going backwards, says a study to be released today in Washington. ...
"There is a dramatic, expanding gap in the levels of freedom and democracy between Islamic countries and the rest of the world," says Freedom House.
Thursday Dec 12, 2002 nyt Mystery Enshrouds Kola Boof, Writer and Internet Persona
Kola Boof says she is the object of a fatwa ordering her death for criticizing the Muslim government in her native Sudan, but Sudanese officials have denied it.
Thursday Dec 12, 2002 nyt More Museums for New York, Despite Poor Economy Two new museums one devoted to contemporary art and one to art of the Himalayas are in the works for Manhattan.
Nov 22, 2002 nyt
Religious rioting in Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria — Rioting by mobs of Muslims and Christians in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna has killed as many as 100 people and seriously injured 500 others, Red Cross officials said Friday as thousands of residents sought refuge in army bases and police stations.
Mobs of Christian youths retaliated against Muslims on Friday in the third day of riots triggered by a newspaper article suggesting Islam's founding prophet would have approved of the Miss World beauty pageant.....Young men shouting "Allahu Akhbar," or "God is great," ignited makeshift street barricades made of tires and garbage, sending plumes of black smoke rising above the city. Others were heard chanting, "Down with beauty" and "Miss World is sin."
Contestants from five countries — Costa Rica, Denmark, Switzerland, South Africa and Panama — are boycotting the event because Islamic courts in Nigeria have sentenced several unmarried women to death by stoning for conceiving babies outside wedlock. Nigeria's government insists none of the judgments will be carried out, although it has refused to intervene directly.
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